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Poster:	tigerbolt	Date:	February 07, 2007 08:09:22pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: First Chord of Shakedown- What is that? Is it the most exciting opening chord? Does that go to Dew?

thanks strat,practice,practice and more practice,just want to get good enough to pass it on to the next generation.:)

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Poster:	stratocaster	Date:	February 07, 2007 08:34:50pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: First Chord of Shakedown- What is that? Is it the most exciting opening chord? Does that go to Dew?

people may not realize that Weir has huge hands and he had an affinity for chord inversions and extensions that spanned 6 frets...i suspect that you will encounter that if you dive into his compositions...what i'm saying is that it's a bitch...his riffing on the big tunes are basically pulled from the chord shapes themselves...i.e. the scales that "lay over" the chord shape...nice and easy area to work as a guitarist, but the key is taste, not speed necessarily...